1. IT FranceBelgium Italcementi Group October 2007 BizTalkfor Ready Mix Concretes business

2. IT FranceBelgium Italcementi Group BizTalk for RMC business - October 2007 2 Summary  Business context  Architecture  Global view  Business view  Technical view  Figures (actual / target)  Project status  BizTalk contribution  BizTalk Roadmap

3. IT FranceBelgium Italcementi Group BizTalk for RMC business - October 2007 3 Business context  Boreal project : IS replacement of Ready Mix Concretes business  Activities perimeter  Sales  Production  Distribution  Organisation based on multiple sites and entities  7 administrative areas (France & Belgium)  200 plants  About 400 users  Information system based on SAP for  Referential  Accounting & controlling activities  Invoicing

4. IT FranceBelgium Italcementi Group BizTalk for RMC business - October 2007 4 Global view SAP Referentials: Customers Suppliers Materials Boreal Hub (National) Boreal Plant Master Data … … Plant manager Sales administration Production / Logistics 7 Areas (France & Belgium) 200 Plants Production Sales Distribution Sales Distribution Production Invoicing Boreal Plant Data Sales Distribution Production BW Statistics BizTalk … …

5. IT FranceBelgium Italcementi Group BizTalk for RMC business - October 2007 5 Sales Shipment Operations AreasPlantAreas Business view Master data, parameters Catalogue (Products & prices) Catalogue (Products & prices) Customers Raw materials vendors Transport & Services Suppliers Transport & Services Suppliers Components Vehicle fleet Procurement (P.O / IGR) Procurement (P.O / IGR) Formulas, Recipes Projects, Estimates, Contracts Projects, Estimates, Contracts Raw materials invoice verification Raw materials invoice verification Invoicing customers Product quality Follow-up Product quality Follow-up Transport & services Invoices verification Transport & services Invoices verification Vehicle operations Follow up Vehicle operations Follow up Objectives Quality of Service Objectives Quality of Service Inventories Unavailabilities Operations Reporting Operations Reporting Sales reporting Production (Prod.order, Batches, DN Production (Prod.order, Batches, DN Statistics Biztalk

6. IT FranceBelgium Italcementi Group BizTalk for RMC business - October 2007 6 Applicative view SAP Boreal Plant Boreal Hub BW BizTalk MSMQ Boreal Client Transformation Boreal Plant Routing Administrative users Production users Reporting users Supervision Client

7. IT FranceBelgium Italcementi Group BizTalk for RMC business - October 2007 7 Boreal Plant XXXX Technical view SAP Boreal Hub Boreal Server Export SAP Import SAP Export Boreal Import Boreal Export Boreal Import Boreal BizTalk IDoc in IDoc out BW BusComponentsHost Boreal Client Region Super. Client Region Supervision Nationale Sched uler Superv ision Scheduler BusComponentHost Super vision Boreal Windows service Auto Update Supervision.Net Remoting BD Boreal Sql Server Boreal XXXX Superv XXXX

8. IT FranceBelgium Italcementi Group BizTalk for RMC business - October 2007 8 Daily figures Boreal Hub BizTalk Transformation SAP Import SAP BUS Export SAP Export Boreal Import Boreal Plant Import Boreal BUS Export Boreal IDoc BizTalk Routing 3300 6600 5000 10000 15000 30000 6200 12400 Actual : ~100 plants Target : 200 plants 200 plants

9. IT FranceBelgium Italcementi Group BizTalk for RMC business - October 2007 9 SAP  Boreal HUB flows & figures

10. IT FranceBelgium Italcementi Group BizTalk for RMC business - October 2007 10 Project status  Deployment status  BizTalk for Boreal operational since 2005  104 plants connected through BizTalk  Target : 200 plants for June 2008  BizTalk environment  Started with BizTalk 2002 and MSMQ  Migration done to BizTalk 2006  Foreseen improvements  Better tracking of exchanges by end-users and technical people (CODit BizTalk Dashboard)

11. IT FranceBelgium Italcementi Group BizTalk for RMC business - October 2007 11 BizTalk Contribution for Ready Mix  Business view  Better visibility and control of the production :  Administrative people can follow the production status of each plant and be more reactive  Production parameters of each plant are traced back centrally  Data exchanges in real time (new customer, new formula, …) vs one daily exchange in the former application  Less constraints for the business ...  IT view  One single application to manage data exchanges (transformation and routing), not only RMC but also other businesses (cement, aggregates…) instead of several interfaces  Integrated management of disconnected sites (queues…)  Management of sites modification simplified (adding or removing of plant)  Common language for mapping rules between SAP and Boreal  …

12. IT FranceBelgium Italcementi Group BizTalk for RMC business - October 2007 12 SOA Architecture with WCF and BizTalk Providing a standard way of communicating Avoiding Point to Point connections and custom coding Removes intermediate MSMQ storage Implements reliable messaging Implements Technical and functional ACK/BACK Implements END TO END transactions Providing visibility on the integration errors to the business users

13. IT FranceBelgium Italcementi Group BizTalk for RMC business - October 2007 13 SOA Architecture with WCF and BizTalk Providing agility to the ItalCementi Group Easy to add new routing destinations High availability of the BizTalk environment Avoiding custom communication protocols for each application Easy to manage the connections to the applications.

14. IT FranceBelgium Italcementi Group BizTalk for RMC business - October 2007 14 BizTalk Evolution  CimentFrançais has anticipated on the BizTalk 2006 R2 version by Creating a WCF adapter for BizTalk 2006 which is compatible with the standard BTS 2006 R2 WCF adapter.  The Current BizTalk 2006 environment is fully upgradable (to BizTalk 2006 R2)  BAM Reporting The average processing time will be reported using BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) This will allow the business to pinpoint the performance bottlenecks in the architecture.